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Summary

OCID:
Published by:: Cherwell District Council
Authority ID:: AA22367
Publication date:: 07 August 2018
Deadline date:: -
Notice type:: Contract Award Notice
Has documents:: No
Has SPD:: No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:: N/A

Abstract

— Provide ICT leadership in the form of strategic and operational ICT advice and development of the internal ICT function.

— Provide advice on any changes, updates or impacts in the ICT market, including any future updated on legislative changes in the ICT industry.

— Development and refresh of the ICT Strategic vision and future plan • Provision of gateway reviews for strategies, programmes and projects.

— Analysis of current systems and solution shaping to provide a detailed options appraisal.

— Analysis and ability to shape the ICT business architecture of the Authorities.

— Development of viability studies for potential systems.

— Technical analysis of systems and processes.

— Economic Benchmarking of systems on the market.

— Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of different ICT systems and solutions.

— Recommendation of preferred solution.

— Building and drafting requirements specification for procurement exercises.

— Provide technical expertise to support ongoing ICT projects.

— ICT project management and support including business analyst resource and specialist project managers.

— Support the ability of Cherwell and South Northamptonshire to sell services to third parties including other public sector bodies, private organisations and those in the third sector.

The Authorities reserve the right to require the service provider to provide all or any part of these services to contracting Authorities named or described below: All district, county and unitary authorities in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, including current and future reiterations of. Contracting authorities within the scope of this procurement also include the following:

— Any corporation established, or a group of individuals appointed to act together, for the specific purpose ofmeeting needs in the general interest, not having an industrial or commercial characters, and:

a) financed wholly or mainly by another Contracting Authority listed in this this specification;

b) subject to management supervision by another Contracting Authority listed in this specification;

c) more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, are appointed by another Contracting Authority listed in this Specification; or

d) an association of, or formed by one or more of,the contracting authorities listed in this specification.

— The current list of Companies includes, but is not limited to:

a) A Services Teckal Company;

b) A Trading Company;

c) A Housing and Regeneration Company;

d) Graven Hill Village Development Company Ltd, Graven Hill Village Holding Company Ltd, Crown HouseBanbury Ltd, CSN Resources Ltd, CSN Associates Ltd.

Full notice text

Contract award notice

Results of the procurement procedure

Section I: Contracting entity

I.1) Name and addresses

Cherwell District Council

Bodicote House

Banbury

OX15 4AA

Contact person: Procurement

E-mail: ProcurementEnquiries@Cherwell-DC.gov.uk

NUTS: UKJ14

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cherwellandsouthnorthants/aspx/Home

I.1) Name and addresses

South Northamptonshire Council

The Forum

Towcester

NN12 6AD

E-mail: cael.sendell-price@cherwellandsouthnorthants.gov.uk

NUTS: UKF24

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.in-tendhost.co.uk/cherwellandsouthnorthants/aspx/Home

I.2) Joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

In the case of joint procurement involving different countries – applicable national procurement law:

I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

I.5) Main activity

General public services

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title

Consultancy Services Framework

Reference number: Cherwell and South Northants Councils - 00000062

II.1.2) Main CPV code

79400000

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

The requirement of the authorities is to establish a consultancy Framework Agreement in which is can call off the skills and resourced of external consultants when the need arises. The Authorities may use this Framework Agreement where there may be areas of uncertainty or where the Authorities lack the internal capability or capacity to provide this type of resource. The use of consultancy advice and resource will be mainly for the commissioning of internal projects to ensure effective service delivery of the Authorities’ transformation programme. The authorities have undertaken a substantial amount of transformation related projects in a range of different service areas. This Framework Agreement will provide support in the following 3 key areas and will be divided into Lots:

— Lot 1: Information technology,

— Lot 2: Human resources,

— Lot 3: Business improvement and change management.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: Yes

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement

Value excluding VAT: 70 000 000.00 GBP

II.2) Description

Lot No: 1

II.2.1) Title

Information Technology

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

72000000

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UKJ14

UKF24

Main site or place of performance:

II.2.4) Description of the procurement